This directory is a free guide to history-focused digital projects for students, faculty, public history professionals, and anyone interested in learning about history through digital media.
It is designed to help connect researchers and learners with resources that can help them explore their interests, and to promote and share the wide range of digital projects in existence. This directory does not include all digital projects, but is vetted by the NCPH staff and Membership Committee for projects that are focused on the study or interpretation of historical subject matter, are open access, and are built with the intention of engaging a wide audience.
NCPH also intends for this to be a resource for those interested in developing their own digital projects by including information on costs, funding, labor, software, etc. for each entry.
The directory includes various filters to help you navigate to projects of interest and is keyword searchable.
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Green Book Cleveland
Green Book Cleveland is a web-based project that maps and documents Northeast Ohio sites of Black entertainment, leisure, and recreation listed in Victor H. Green’s Green Book directories of the 1930s-60s, as well as additional…Subjects
African American history, African American–Social conditions, Racial discrimination, Civil Rights–History, Leisure–Social aspects, Recreation, Suburbs–Environmental aspects, Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
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Cleveland Voices
Cleveland Voices is an oral history discovery site for the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection, an ongoing project of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. The project also includes…Subjects
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area, agriculture, architecture, art, environment, industry, landscape, migration, music, neighborhoods, parks, race and ethnicity, suburbs, women
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MaCleKi
MaCleKi is a website that explores the history of Kisumu, Kenya, through location-based storytelling. The project is a product of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants that supported an investigation of how to optimize…Subjects
Kisumu (Kenya), Kenya, agriculture, colonialism, education, environment, gender, health and safety, labor, politics, race, religion, trade
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Cleveland Historical
Cleveland Historical is a mobile app and website that explores the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area’s history through location-based storytelling. Informed by hundreds of oral histories, the project melds interpretive text with curated images, audio, video,…Subjects
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
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The Kitchen in the Cabinet: Histories of Food and Science
"The Kitchen in the Cabinet" is a digital exhibition that explores the historical intersections of food and natural science. It tells the stories of centuries-old food artifacts that have survived to the present day, despite…Subjects
History of Science, Food History, Natural History, Culinary History, Early America, African American, European History, Enlightenment, 17th Century, 18th Century
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Women’s Work in Louisville, KY
Women's Work in Louisville, Ky., examines primary source materials relating to women in paid labor from the settlement through World War II. The project includes sections on Eras, Women, and a Timeline. The Eras section…Subjects
Women, Labor, History, Louisville (Kentucky)
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Mapping the Mexican Midwest
"Mapping the Mexican Midwest," is a digital history project that visualizes early-twentieth century Midwestern Mexican institutions, cultural celebrations, and regional networks. "Mapping the Mexican Midwest" makes clear the importance of mobility to community formation, while…Subjects
migration; transnationalism; Latinx; Mexican American; mapping; community formation; Midwest
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Slavery in Chester County (Pennsylvania)
“Slavery in Chester County” is a portal to resources on slavery in Chester County, a southeastern Pennsylvania county that borders Maryland and Delaware. The portal includes: a video and map detailing the case of Jacob…Subjects
Pennsylvania – History, Local; Chester County (Pa.)—Maps; Slavery--America—History; Slavery--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Slavery-Pennsylvania-Chester County; Slavery-Pennsylvania-Delaware County
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The Hatchet: Jim Crow on the High Seas
This project examines a soldier newspaper published and circulated by Americans onboard the WWI transport ship the USS George Washington. The double-sided sheet, entitled The Hatchet, included news from home and abroad, baseball scores, ship…Subjects
African American, World War I, Jim Crow, Segregation,
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Gathering Places: Religion and Community in Milwaukee
Gathering Places is a collaboratively built digital archive of Milwaukee's religious diversity.Subjects
Religion, Church History, Milwaukee
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